Attacks on People Who Met With UN Expert
(Geneva, December 12, 2018) – The United Nations should ensure an urgent and robust system-wide response to credible reports that the Egyptian authorities have attacked […]
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EGYPT: Enforced disappearance and medical negligence lead the violations race in Egypt during September and October 2018
Detention watch report: EGYPT: Enforced disappearance and medical negligence lead the violations race in Egypt during September and October. The continued disappearance of former Egyptian […]
Egypt: 43 days after former MP’s disappearance, state denies knowledge of his fate while emphasizing his fugitive status
The undersigned Egyptian rights organizations call on the Egyptian authorities to disclose the location and fate of Dr. Mustafa Al Naggar, a former member of […]
Egypt: Redraft civil society law to protect, not punish, independent organizations
With President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi recently issuing a decree to amend Law 70 of 2017 regulating civic organizations, the undersigned rights organizations emphasize the futility […]
Egypt: 12-year old child forcibly disappeared and held in solitary confinement in state’s “fight against terrorism”
October 30, 2018 Save Abdullah Boumedine The undersigned organizations condemn the unlawful measures taken by the Egyptian authorities against Abdullah Boumedine Nasr al-Din, age 12, […]
SUBJECT: DON’T PROVIDE POLITICAL COVER FOR BRUTAL REPRESSION OF EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT
November 2, 2018 Mrs. Soyata Maiga, Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Banjul, Gambia SUBJECT: DON’T PROVIDE POLITICAL COVER FOR BRUTAL […]
Joint Report: Civilians hastily executed without due process protections by Egyptian military courts
Geneva 15 October 2018 Today October 15, six independent rights organizations released a new report as part of the campaign to end capital punishment in […]
Egypt: The crisis continues .. Enforced disappearance tops the violations in places of detention in the months of July and August 2018
A new document to include to the United Nations report on Egyptian authorities’ violations Solving the crisis of ‘Regini’ and similar cases by taking radical […]
Death sentence for 20 Egyptians upheld in latest affront to UN calls to abolish capital punishment
Geneva 1 October 2018 The undersigned organizations denounce the ruling on September 24, 2018 to uphold the death sentences of 20 defendants in connection with […]
Egypt: The United Nations working group on enforced disappearances affirms the systematic commitment of such crimes by Egyptian authorities against activists and human rights defenders.
Committee for Justice Press Release Geneva 17 September 2018 Committee for Justice (CFJ) said that the annual report issued by the United Nations Working Group […]
Statement on U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo’s Decision to Release Suspended Military Aid to Egypt
Joint Statement The undersigned independent Egyptian human rights organizations express our consternation over U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s decision to release $195 million in […]
Egypt: Ruling in Rabaa Dispersal Case underscores need for immediate end to mass death sentences
Joint Statement The undersigned organizations unequivocally condemn the mass death sentence issued in Case no. 34150/2015, commonly known as the Rabaa Dispersal Case. The undersigned […]
Egypt: Release Amal Fathy, victim of the state’s widening prosecution to silence human rights defenders
Geneva 11 August 2018 The undersigned rights organizations condemn Amal Fathy’s referral to trial in case no. 7991/2018. Fathy is the wife of human rights […]
EGYPT DETENTION WATCH REPORT (May- June 2018)
Geneva 25 July 2018 Following CfJ’s reports on human rights violations against detainees in Egyptian detention places for the entirety of months in 2017 and […]
President must not ratify laws destroying last bastions of free speech in Egypt
Geneva 23 July 2018 The undersigned organizations denounce the three laws regulating media passed by the Egyptian Parliament on July 16th. We declare our full […]
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